First of all, in response to my friend from Wyoming, the number of arrests and prosecutions are up significantly since 1992. They are obviously not adequate enough, but if we had more BATF enforcement officers, that would help that…

tobacco use kills 430,000 people a year. That's more than the number who die from murder, suicide, AIDS, alcohol and all illegal drugs combined. The number of people suffering from tobacco-related illnesses today is in the millions. A…

Mr. Chairman, since its creation in 1965, the National Endowment for the Arts has issued more than 110,000 grants; and of this total, fewer than 20 have been considered controversial. We can match that 20 against grant recipients who…

Mr. Speaker, the Internet has become an integral part of our daily lives at work and at home. Because of the Internet, the American people have access to services and information that were unheard of 5 or 10 years ago. Approval of this…

I can understand the trends within this country. They are historic towards protectionism and isolationism. But they have not prevailed. And we have benefited as a result of our confidence in the future, our ability to compete. But if we…

I certainly want to thank and acknowledge the leadership of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner) for his Federal management reform efforts. He is doing a very fine job on the Committee on Government Reform, and I congratulate him. And…

I think we know what this budget resolution conference report is all about. The majority wants to provide the Republican presidential candidate with a budget that he can work with, and that is fine. I read on the front page of the…

It is easy to beat up on Federal employees. After all, we are their bosses and they really cannot fight back. And maybe that is why they have had to contribute over $200 billion in the last few years toward deficit reduction. But at 3 a.m…

you will recall that two years ago this House failed to adopt a concurrent budget resolution. It was the first time in the 26-year history of the Budget Act that Congress failed to adopt a budget. It disrupted the appropriations process…

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 2366 in my mind is a focused, tightly-crafted bill that will reduce unnecessary litigation and legal costs. It is careful not to overreach, and as such, gives us the opportunity to respond on a bipartisan basis to the…

the problem is there is no surplus. Even though CBO has projected a $1.9 trillion surplus over the next 10 years, they made false assumptions in coming up with that surplus. For example, if we project the current level of appropriations…

Mr. Speaker, the students of the District of Columbia are at a unique educational disadvantage today. They are the only students in the entire continental United States who do not have access to the State college and university system that…

I have no contributor who has ever asked me to support this legislation, just to clarify for the Record in response to your earlier implication.

the reason why I rise to speak with regard to Mr. Knisely is that I worked with Mr. Knisely a quarter of a century ago. Over the last 25 years, I have become older and fatter and grayer and uglier, but Mr. Knisely looks the same. He is…

the problem with the Thomas substitute is not its wording, it is its motivation. It is a cynical ploy to kill substantive campaign finance reform. We live in the greatest democracy in the history of western civilization, but it is not a…

Every jurisdiction in the country has the authority to determine whether or not they want a needle exchange program. A great many of them, I think it is 113 cities, have chosen to do so. All we are saying is the District of Columbia, under…

I think we have made our point. Number one, this is a good appropriations bill. If the Members wanted to change the national law with regard to the medicinal use of marijuana, with regard to needle exchanges, with regard to a host of other…

I just want to clarify some things that I know my friend, the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Tiahrt), inadvertently must have left out, because I think it is relevant to inform the Members that every single scientific and medical study has…

We do want to use this opportunity, though, to thank the gentleman from Oklahoma (Chairman Istook) and congratulate him for the 333 to 92 vote on final passage of the D.C. appropriations bill. I do not know that anybody in this body is…

We ought to be proud of what we have done. Nineteen nations worked together cooperatively to stand up for the freedoms that we enjoy and to stand up against thuggery. The Kosovar Albanians had been denied virtually every freedom that we…

as one of the lead Democratic sponsors of the Year 2000 Readiness and Responsibility Act, I rise today in strong support of this legislation. Anybody that has followed this legislation knows that the debate surrounding it on both sides of…

I would remind my colleagues what we are talking about are young girls, young girls in trouble, young girls who are unmarried, young girls who invariably, according to the statistics, have been impregnated by older men exploiting them. We…

I appreciate the gentleman putting that information on the Record. The fact is that all of us, we are going to have to tell our staffs that we have to swallow a cost of living increase, which means that we are going to probably have to…

let me just say a word about what is happening in another part of the world. We are achieving at least a temporary peace in the Balkans. Hopefully, it will be a sustained peace. NATO and the United States have prevailed. They have been…

Mr. Speaker, do we really want to take care of ourselves first before the rest of the country? This is the bill that takes care of us, of our internal operations. When we finish with this, 97 percent of the appropriations process is still…